Ludwigsburg City Library
| Ludwigsburg City Library | |
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 The main office of the Ludwigsburg city library is in the cultural center
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| Library type | library |
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Ludwigsburg 
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| ISIL | DE-279 |
| operator | City of Ludwigsburg |
| management | Thomas Stierle |
| Website | www.stabi-ludwigsburg.de |
The City Library Ludwigsburg belongs 1,094,684 items borrowed in 2016 to the most used public libraries in Germany. In 2010, it was ranked eighth in the size class of cities between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants in the national library ranking BIX .
history
The first Ludwigsburg library was founded in 1765 by Duke Carl Eugen . After the royal residence changed several times between Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart in the following years, the library came to Stuttgart after only eleven years as the later Württemberg State Library .
In the 20s and 30s of the 19th century more libraries were opened. These were exclusively private initiatives such as the libraries of the Museum Society (since 1823) and the civil society (since 1832). These libraries were only available to members.
At the beginning of the 20th century there were around 30 to 40 institutions and associations in Ludwigsburg with their own small libraries. In addition there were also the small local libraries of the incorporated suburbs of Hoheneck and Oßweil. The plans to build a public library were postponed to the time after the end of the Second World War due to the considerable burden on the city from the high war contribution . In fact, the then mayor, Dr. Frank found the ideal partner for building a city library after the war: Erwin Ackerknecht , who had almost 40 years of professional experience as a library manager in Szczecin, got a job as a cultural advisor in the summer of 1945 with the task of setting up a city library and adult education center, as well as managing the Local history museum.
Looking for books and rooms
The search for books and rooms turned out to be difficult. In an appeal by the city library to the population, he asked them to “offer all expendable books, except school books, and give them for a fee or free of charge”. Finding a room for the planned library turned out to be an even bigger problem. The first provisional solution was the premises of a 200 m² apartment at Bahnhofstrasse 35. With an initial inventory of around 2000 volumes, the library was opened for general use on June 17, 1946. On March 31, 1947, 1,317 readers were already registered and by 1951 the book inventory had increased fivefold.
American library sets new standards
In June 1950, the American Consulate General opened an American library in the Reinhardt Barracks, which set new standards. The city library could not keep up with its spacious rooms, free open access lending, its reading room and its children's and youth department. Since there was no money for improvements and innovations, the number of loans dropped dramatically. Only when it became known in January 1953 that the Reinhardt barracks would be closed at the end of February did the city library have a unique opportunity. The American Consulate General gave the city the building and the inventory of the American library.
New start with a new concept
On October 6, 1953, Ackerknecht handed over the new city library in the Reinhardt barracks to his successor Karl-Heinz Schiller. Next to the new premises
- Main library with integrated youth department
- Children's library in a separate room
- Reading room with magazines and reference books
- Work and administration rooms
The open stacks in particular improved the use of the library. For the first time, users had free access to books and media in their library. Within a year, the number of new registrations increased by 341%.
Book bus and first branch
In the spring of 1956 there was a discussion about how the districts could be supplied with books. In April 1958, the local council decided to buy a book bus in the form of a semi-trailer. In December 1958, Germany's largest book bus with around 3,500 books finally supplied the Ludwigsburg districts with media from the city library for the first time. In May 1966, with the help of a donation from the Burr company, the city library opened its first branch in the newly built Schlößlesfeld primary school.
Branches today
In November 1975, another library was opened in the West School Center as an initially closed branch. This changed in 1994. Today, the West Branch is the largest branch of the city library with around 27,000 media. With a current media inventory of approx. 19,000 media, the book bus makes 12 stops in the city every week. The Schlößlesfeld branch houses around 16,000 media.
Today's cultural center
After ten years, the city library in the Reinhardt barracks was bursting at the seams. At the beginning of 1963, therefore, considerations began to build a joint new building for the city library, adult education center and youth center in the courtyard of the town hall. On February 26, 1963, the local council approved the space allocation plan and on September 15, 1969 the city library was opened in the new cultural center. In the seventies and eighties, more and more citizens took advantage of the city library's services. Whereas in 1970 the number of registered readers was 12% of the population, this figure rose to 21% by 1990. This trend continued in the 1990s, so that the number of loans in the cultural center rose by 92% from 1993 to 2005. In 2009, the loan booking was switched to an RFID system.
Inventory and services
Media inventory
- 80,000 non-fiction and specialist books
- 30,000 novels
- 50,000 books for children and young people
- 30 regional, national and international newspapers
- 250 magazines
- 5000+ CD-ROMs and tutorials
- approx. 14,000 CDs and DVDs
Catalogs and databases
- Online catalog - research in the entire media range of the city library, pre-ordering of borrowed titles and extensions
- Public internet places with word processors and printers
- Databases and learning programs for on-site research
Online library LB
Since September 2008, 28 libraries in the Ludwigsburg district have operated a joint branch on the Internet. Books, audio books, music, films and magazines can be downloaded from the online library LB, which comprises around 40,000 media. The internet branch is open around the clock. The loan is limited in time: After the deadline, the media protected by DRM can no longer be used. The project was initially funded by the Ludwigsburg district and the cultural foundation of the Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg .
General services
- Guided tours for adults - regular public tours, including introductions to the Internet and the online catalog
- Loans
- Reader requests
- Reading lists
- Events on literary and current topics for adults and children
Services for schools and kindergartens
- Guided tours for all types of schools and grade levels
- Handsets for teaching topics as presence inventory at the request of the teachers
- Recommendation lists on current topics with titles available in the city library
- Learning aids for all subjects, as well as extensive materials for exam preparation for secondary school, secondary school leaving certificate and Abitur
- Media case for schools and kindergartens
Reading promotion for children and young people
- Antolin - the largest German-language web platform for promoting reading is supported, which procures the children's and young people's books contained in the Antolin program from the library
- International Story Island - native speakers read voluntarily in the children's library
- Storytime - playful English learning with picture books
- Picture book Saturday - regular weekly readings with our own staff
- Action Lesestart - graders and their parents will receive a reading bag with an invitation to the city library
- Reading aloud inspires - Organization and planning of a city-wide reading network for all kindergartens and primary schools with volunteer reading mentors
- Ludwigsburg short crime prize for young people
literature
- City of Ludwigsburg - City Library (Ed.): 50 Years of the City Library of Ludwigsburg 1946 - 1996 / Festschrift. 1996.